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Poop on the way to daycare

MaebbMaebb member
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DS often poops on the way to daycare. I think he is just pretty regular, and the time that we are in the car to daycare happens to be when he poops.

I feel bad dropping him off with a poopy diaper. He is in an in-home daycare, and I am kind of scared that maybe she will think that he pooped at home, and I was just too lazy to change it.

What is the etiquette for this? Should I change his diaper in the car? Should I take him inside and change it myself, or should I just tell the DCP that he pooped and let her deal with it? It happens probably two or three times a week.
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  • catycatecatycate member
    I usually change when we get there.
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  • Libby1978Libby1978 member
    I'd change him before I left DC.
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  • shadypinesshadypines member
    Change him when I get to DC....


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  • MaebbMaebb member
    OMG, update -

    Today was a poop explosion. The worst ever. It was all over him, his arms, legs, carseat, etc. And he was smiling and waving his arms and legs the entire time.

    So I bathed him at the DCP's while she put his clothes and the carseat cover in the laundry. Then DCP's daughter (3yo) came in the bathroom while I was bathing him and dumped out some expensive cosmetics on the floor. I guess I owe the DCP a Sephora gift card. That was awful, but she was very nice about it.

    DS is 9 months old and had 3 servings of fruits and veggies yesterday. Maybe too much?
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  • MaebbMaebb member
    I fed him two of those little Gerber plastic containers of puréed veggies (at two different meals), plus some pieces of fruit cut into small chunks. I know he actually ate it because I fed it to him and cleaned it up with the spoon as I went so that it ended up in his mouth and not all over him. He's teething too, so that might be a factor.
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  • RayRay007RayRay007 member
    edited September 2013
    That has happened to us maybe twice and I felt bad and felt like she probably thought I was lying when I said she just pooped in the car (especially since it's a 5 minute car ride). I can't imagine that happening several times a week. I don't know what I'd do. 
    ETA: Sorry about your morning. Anyway, my dcp is a home and it's not like a centre where we can just walk in and help ourselves. But I guess it would be polite to offer to come in and change her, but whenever I've told dcp that she just pooped she says no problem and takes DD. 

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  • OhSewCraftyOhSewCrafty member
    Our DC has a policy that kids need to be dropped off in a clean diaper, so if one of them poops on the way, I just change them when I get there. Drop off time is too hectic for the teachers to also be changing a bunch of diapers.
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  • ILoveBoysILoveBoys member
    @Maebb I wouldn't pay for the makeup. I understand you may feel guilty bc she was putting YOUR things in the wash. But her 3yo should have been supervised by her. It wasn't your fault she let her wander. Unless I'm missing details to the story?
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  • MaebbMaebb member
    Thanks, @ILoveBoys and @HilarityEnsued. I looked up the makeup, and it is $60, so I don't think I'll pay for it. I may just give her a Sephora gift card for Christmas or Thanksgiving.

    The in-home DCP is also a friend; I don't know if that is a relevant detail or not. I've offered to change the poops before, and she says don't worry about it, but I still feel bad, and I wonder if she'll think badly of me if it happens too often. Obviously today with the blowout, she accepted the help because laundry + bath + looking after her two LO's would be a lot to manage.

    I was bathing DS in the bathroom, she was doing laundry (the carseat cover and poopy clothes), and her 2 girls came into the bathroom. My attention was on DS since I was bathing him, and that is when her daughter got into the makeup. So there was never any assumption that I was supposed to be watching her DD, but I still feel bad that the makeup got spilled while I was in the bathroom. And I didn't really have time to help clean it up because I was already late to work, so I just said, "She got into that and spilled it on the floor, sorry. I didn't see what she was doing because I was bathing DS." So I feel like I made her morning kind of messy and hectic, but I texted to say sorry, and she said it's ok and don't worry about it.
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